* Others should take notice of the differences in AWG, SWG and BWG
wire diameters from theses charts! Just as an example, one would
think that when a drawing specifies a 26 AWG copper wire which shows
as .0159 inch equaling .4038 mm (millimeter) IS REALLY .0180 inch in
SWG which equals .4572 mm! BIG DIFFERENCES WHEN YOU ORDER FROM
COUNTRIES LIKE INDIA which use SWG! hmmm!
I HIGHLY recommend experimenters and researchers to bookmark the
locations below!
Dave.
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> TeagueFamily wrote:
> To calculate mm size FROM decimal inches, do you multiply
> inch size by 25.4 ?
> Yes... 25.4mm equals 1 inch.
> - North American wire companies use AWG (American Wire Gauge)
> - Other companies elswhere use SWG. (Standard Wire Gauge?)
> - British use BWG (British Wire Gauge)
> http://www.reade.com/Conversion/wire_gauge.html maybe sufficient to
> answer your query?
>
> Wire gauges, thread types, tapers can be the bane of the mechanical
> engineer... "Machinery's Handbook" is the widely used reference,
> http://www.industrialpress.com/handbook/index.html for an
> introduction.
> Cheers... Rex
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